Jon lightfoot biography

Biography of John Lightfoot (1602-1675):

John Lightfoot: English Biblical critic and Hebraist; born at Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, Mar. 29, 1602; died at Ely, Cambridgeshire, Dec.

6, 1675. After completing his education at Christ’s College, Cambridge, he taught at Repton, Derbyshire, for two years and then took orders.

John Lightfoot (29 March – 6 December ) was an English churchman, rabbinical scholar, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Master of.

JONATHAN LIGHTFOOT is a Professor in the Teaching, Learning & Technology Department at Hofstra University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

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Jon Erwin Lightfoot, 76, went to be with the Lord on December 1, He was born June 8, in Springfield, the son of Garth and Helen .

Jon Lightfoot was born in Missouri and studied in New York under Lowell Nesbitt.

Appointed curate of Norton-in-Hales, Shropshire, he became chaplain to the Hebraist Sir Rowland Cotton, who urged him to study Hebrew and other Semitic languages. He accompanied Cotton when he removed to London, and then became rector of Stone, Staffordshire, for about two years, but in 1628 changed his residence to Hornsey, Middlesex, in order to be able to consult the rabbinical collections at Sion College, London.

During his residence at Hornsey he wrote his first work, dedicated to Cotton and entitled Erubhin, or Miscellanies, Christian and Judaical, penned for Recreation at vacant Hours (London, 1629). In the following year he was presented to the rec